The United States' credibility is at an all-time low. So, this war is against the interest of the Untied States.

Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.

The worst loss for any country is not the infrastructure or the buildings or the material loss; actually, it's the human resources loss.

We don't have a lot of expectations [for Donald J. Trump] because the American administration is not only about the President; it's about different powers within this administration, the different lobbies that they are going to influence any President.

That the rebels or the terrorists used the chemical weapons in northern Aleppo five months ago [in 2013].

Those fighters, the Syrian part that you're talking about, lost its natural incubators in the Syrian society - they don't have incubators anymore ; that's why they have incubators abroad. They need money from abroad, they need moral support and political support from abroad. They don't have any grassroots, any incubator. So, when you stop the smuggling, we don't have problems.

I think sadness prevails in Syria now. We don't feel anything else but sadness because we have this killing every day, whether with chemical or any other kind.